About Angharad

“Ariodante tends to steal this particular show and with her silvery, shaded mezzo and poetic phrasing no one will have begrudged Angharad Rowlands her ovation. Her ‘Scherza infida’ seemed to suspend time.”
- The Spectator

“In the title role, the mezzo-soprano Angharad Rowlands warmed to the task, unleashing her full range of expression in her joyful final aria ‘Dopo notte’. I’d have loved her to sing it all over again.”
- The Guardian

“In the opera’s greatest hit ‘Dopo notte’, Rowlands showed great versatility, comfortable stage presence and maintained the jubilant scene with a vibrant, flexible voice, and a confidence in the space.”
- Gramophone

“Angharad Rowlands did wonders with her extraordinary, powerfully sung, misanthropic Florence Pike.”
- The Classical Source

Welsh mezzo-soprano Angharad Rowlands is a graduate of Royal Academy Opera where she was generously supported by the Carr-Gregory Trust, the Norman Ayrton Award and the Josephine Baker Trust. She is a 2024 International Handel Singing Competition Finalist, the winner of the 2022 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award Song Prize and Major van Someren-Godfrey Prize, and an alumna of both the Oxford International Song Festival and Leeds Lieder Young Artist Programmes. Angharad is currently a member of the Glyndebourne Chorus.

Whilst studying at Royal Academy Opera under Raymond Connell and Iain Ledingham, Angharad performed the title role in Handel’s Ariodante, Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Florence Pike (Albert Herring), cover Mother Goose (The Rake’s Progress), Agnes/Troll 3 (Freya Waley-Cohen’s WITCH) and 2nd Witch (Dido & Aeneas). Other roles include 2nd Bridesmaid (Le nozze di Figaro - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), cover Praskowia (The Merry Widow - Glyndebourne Festival Opera), cover Juno (Semele - Opéra de Lille), Quince/Fairy (The Fairy Queen - Longborough Festival Opera), and Dido (Dido & Aeneas - Hurn Court Opera).

Angharad’s concert highlights include Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon at the Salzburg Festival and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, Bach’s St John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe, Handel’s Israel in Egypt at St John’s Smith Square, and Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. In recital, Angharad has performed at the Oxford International Song Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist, and Wigmore Hall.